Co-founder and CEO, Spot AI
Rish Gupta is co-founder and CEO of Spot AI. He writes about cameras, physical AI, and the industrial economy.
For eighty years the camera watched and waited for a person to look. The new generation notices things and does something about them. I think that is the biggest change in the history of the device, and it started in 2024.
Frontier labs now spend more of their compute on post-training than on pre-training. For video AI, that means the winners will be whoever lets a customer measure and tune a model on their own footage.
The hard part of putting an agent on a camera is the knowledge sitting in three people's heads at the plant. Someone has to get it out, and I think that someone is the integrator.
Eighty years ago the camera let engineers watch a rocket from a safe distance. It is about to become a worker. An essay on how vision unlocks physical AI, why the utility function already favours security, and what it takes to build for it.